Tag Archives: ROI

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

As both a vendor product marketer and now an analyst, I’ve often been asked to help produce an “official” ROI (or the full TCO) calculator for some product. I used to love pulling out Excel and chaining together pages of cascading formulas. But I’m getting older and wiser. Now I see that ROI calculators are by and large just big rat holes. In fact I was asked again this week and, instead of quickly replying “yes, if you have enough money” and spinning out some rehashed spreadsheet (like some other IT analyst firms), I spent some time thinking about why the time and money spent producing detailed ROI calculators is usually a wasted investment, if not a wasted opportunity (to do better).

RT @TruthinIT: There's no cost of goods like a traditional NAS device where I've got disks I've got to pay for. And if I'm not using the data on those disks, I still got to pay for those disks. bit.ly/2BBX073@Nasuni@smworldbigdata

In 30 min I'm interviewing @Cohesity (and customer) on @TruthinIT about Mass Data Fragmentation. It's about having too many copies in about four or five different "dimensions", including cloud! Join us webcast (12.11.18) @ 1pmET (and there will be prizes) bit.ly/2PdqrQn